jeethu

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

jeethu

#!/usr/bin/env bash

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# @author Jay Taylor <[email protected]>
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# @date 2011-10-20
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# @description Copies MySQL database to ramdisk then runs supplied shell script
# or command. The ramdisk version of the database is then copied back to the
# filesystem. Speeds up IO-intensive operations (e.g. loading heavily indexed